Sir Gregory Nonsence his newes from no place Written on purpose, with much study to no end, plentifully stored with want of wit, learning, iudgement, rime and reason, and may seeme very fitly for the vnderstanding of nobody. Toyte, Puncton, Ghemorah, Molushque, Kaycapepson. This is the worke of the authors, without borrowing or stealing from others. By Iohn Taylor.

To Nobody.

VVpon a Christmas Euen, som what night Easter, anon after Whit∣sontide, walking in a Coach from London to Lambeth by water, I o∣uertooke a man that met me in the morning before sunne set, the wind being in Ca∣pricorne, the Signe Southwest, with silence I demanded many questions of him, and hee with much pensiuenesse did answere me merrily to the full, with such ample and empty replications, that both our vnderstandings being equally satisfied, we contentiously agreed to finish and prosecute the narration of the vnknowne Knight Sir Gregory Nonsence, so sitting downe vpon our shoulders, resting vneasily on a banke of Sicamores vnder a Tree of odoriferous and contagious Camomile, after three sighs, smilingly vttered in the He∣brew Character, two grones from the Chaldean Dialact, fiue sobs from the Arabian Sinquapace, sixe dumps from Germane Idiome, nine Moodes

of Melancholly from the Italian tongue, with one hub hub from the Hiberbian outcry. And last he laughed in the Cambrian tongue, and beganne to declare in the Vtopian speech, what I haue heere with most diligent negligence translated into the English Language, in which if the Printer hath placed any line, letter or sillable, whereby this large volume may bee made guilty to bee vnder∣stood by any man, I would haue the Reader not to impute the fault to the Author, for it was farre from his purpose to write to any purpose, so ending at the beginning, I say as it is applawsfully writ| ten and commended to posterity in the Midsom∣mer nights dreame. If we offend, it is with our good will, we came with no intent, but to offend, and shew our simple skill.

Rolihayton.